Synth love error message

after about 8hrs straight of patching, i must have done something that my frazzled brain can not interpret at the moment. My favorite synth patch is giving me the following message in the message window:

Sounds like something I ran into, at least in part. There may be a control character in the maxpat file, and in earlier versions of 5, this often caused the patch to not open. Here’s the thread I created for this problem; there’s a relatively simple fix using TextWrangler on Mac — "zap gremlins", which gets rid of nasty patch-breaking control characters. On Windows it was a little trickier to find an app that worked for this, but I eventually did.